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In my latest for @FTAlphaville, I discuss why the new Trump tariff measures are a recipe for … crime!
(Yes, I’m writing about rules of origin again.)
on.ft.com/4cmmhlu
Sam Lowe
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Sam Lowe
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Partner, @FlintGlobal. Trade and Market Access. Senior visiting research fellow, @policyatkings. Subscribe to my newsletter, Most Favoured Nation, below.
- At some point I hope that there will be some recognition that all of the people who said that leaving the EU would mean additional cost and bureaucracy for businesses were right and those who spent the past years peddling fantastical solutions that don’t exist were not.
- I can’t comprehend being angry about a lifeboat service saving lives at sea. The alternative is allowing people to drown.
- My suggestion for fixing twitter: Allow people to view the tweets of people they follow, in the order they were posted, without algorithmic interference.
- 160 MPs voted for no deal. That’s a pretty long list of people who should never be allowed near a ministerial role.
- If your salary is secure, there really is no excuse not to continue paying those that do occasional work for you (eg cleaner) for duration of lockdown.
- I see it is “pretend there are enough desks for all of the civil service to work in the office” day, again.
- Brexiters for Schengen.
- Can we skip to the part where the new PM realises that all of the constraints that exist now for May exist for them too.
- The thing I fear people forget is that freedom of movement is actually really really good.
- Was the Prime Minister duped into singing a treaty that explicitly creates a customs and regulatory border within the UK? No. Does he appear to have convinced himself he was duped? Yes.
- So the UK does have influence over what the EU does after all.
- While in the EU, the UK outsourced a large quantity of government and regulatory functions to the Commission and EU agencies. Now the UK has left, it has brought these functions back in-house. Hence the need for more civil servants. (This really isn’t difficult.)
- A reminder that the Special Relationship does exist, but it is between the US and Ireland.Four senior congressmen write to Boris Johnson to reiterate there will be no US-UK trade deal if the legislation to override the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement isn’t pulled
